Re: LTE bands

I always picked my phones with two features in mind: world wide support of data and camera performance.

All this while keeping the cost reasonable.

That's what lead me to Moto G phones (or X in previous generation)

What's bothering me is that the Moto G phones sold in US don't have the LTE band 20 that is used in rural areas of EU while they have the bands 3 and 7 used in the urban deployments.

Why this? Do I really need to get an Moto Z or an iPhone for this feature?

Oh, wait, I can't get a Moto Z either, because the global one lacks the LTE 13 (Verizon), only the US version has that but is missing all other EU bands.

I don't know of any phone that will get LTE everwhere in the world. I am currently in EU (France and Greece) with the USA Moto Z GSM - I get LTE fine.

No one here can telly you why Moto doesn't have every single band as this is a user to user forum, but i travel in EU for a number of years and it has never been a problem for me. There are places in USA I don't get LTE, and sometimes outside of USA I don't - but compared to my coworkers who usually are running around looking for wifi as their carrier plan is to expensive to use any roaming data, my Moto phones work great.

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